A demanding research of British overseas coverage is equipped at a time while Britain possessed the most important Empire that humankind has ever recognized. during this Empire India had a different place, comprising ninety seven according to cent of Britain's Asiatic Empire. All British statesmen deemed it necessary to hold their carry over India regardless of the chance or rate of doing so.

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1 r, for a com" bination of "exact science," ritual, and "magic power" in the work 0 f the ancient Aryan era ftsmen, 0 Berthelot ( I88g), pp. vi-vii. ' The words, alchemy and chemistry, are derived ultimately from the name of Egypt itself, Kamt or Qemt, meaning literally black, and applied to the Nile mud. The word was also applied to the black powder produced by quicksilver in Egyptian metallurgical processes. " 2 The analogy to the sacrament of the mass and the marvelous powers ascribed to the host by medieval preachers like Stephen of Bourbon scarcely needs remark.